The jurors in this category are Marilyn Chin, Garth Greenwell, Rebecca Makkai, Michael Schaub, William T. Vollmann.This award is given to an author whose debut collection of short stories published in 2019 represents “distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.” The jurors in this category are Aimee Bender, Jamel Brinkley, Samantha Hunt, Randa Jarrar, and Elissa Schappell.This award is for a book-length work of any genre by an author of color, published in the United States in 2019. Image: Noam Galai, Getty Images for PEN America. Our Awards are juried by panels of esteemed writers, editors, translators, and critics. This year’s jurors: Margaret Carson, Ezra E. Fitz, Susan Smith Nash, Charlotte Whittle.The award is conferred annually on a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. All shortlisted winners will have their works published right here on our website! Please note this is a postponement and not a cancellation.

Jurors this year: Cornelius Eady, Linda Gregerson, Deborah Paredez, Monica Youn.This honor goes to a writer “whose work exemplifies excellence and influence in the world of theater, television, or film.”This award names 12 emerging fiction writers each year, each for a debut short story published during a given calendar year in a literary magazine or cultural site, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers. Image: Noam Galai, Getty Images, for PEN AmericaThis award is meant to assist with the translation of Paraguayan literature from Spanish or Guarani into English. Press Release January 15, 2020. “In these extraordinary times, the written word has never been so important or healing,” said Louis Bayard, PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair.“Sea Monsters, along with our other four finalists, exemplifies the richness, artistry, and …


|   Submissions and nominations for the 2021 cycle are open June 15–August 15, 2020. The video will include citations from our 2020 judges and appearances by all five finalist authors. Each of our five finalists deserves the prize for the ways they opened new veins of investigation in terms of craft, theme, and voice. “We did our work in full knowledge that our own long association with the publishing world as critics, writers, and readers should permit us to put our own distinctive stamp on the awarding of this prize and serve to expand its impact. You can learn more aboutThis year’s Literary Awards will confer over $330,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2019.
He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for trade and indie authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman. Yiyun Li speaks at the PEN Literary Awards 2020 on winning the Jean Stein Award. Image: Noam Galai, Getty Images for PEN AmericaThis award goes to a book-length work of any genre and is meant to recognize originality, merit, and impact.

It’s juried this year by Diane Ackerman, Rivka Galchen, Priyamvada Natarajan.The audience at the 2020 PEN Literary Awards program at New York City’s Town Hall. PEN America’s Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf joins poet and Literary Awards committee member Ruben Quesada for a conversation about how awards can help diversify and advance the American literary canon.

"Through the reimagined Literary Awards, PEN America redoubles its commitment to celebrating the talent and voices of the poets and writers most often marginalized by business as usual, and…PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards winners.“Fostering and celebrating international literature is central to the mission of the PEN America Literary Awards; we seek to champion original and promising writers of the global community and…PEN America is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards.“The PEN America Literary Awards work to elevate original and promising voices and build a literary canon fit for the 21st century.

“I have been carrying this story with me for 30 years, ever since living it, and never in my wildest dreams would have expected it to join such splendid company. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. |   PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists! “In these extraordinary times, the written word has never been so important or healing,” said Louis Bayard, PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair. The responsibility of anointing one book meant, therefore, having long and illuminating discussions around the fact that equality contains two significant words, ‘equal’ and ‘quality,’ and to wrestle with both simultaneously.

“In these extraordinary times, the written word has never been so important or healing,” said “It is one thing to have a guideline to choose ‘a first among equals’ and another to have to actually accomplish it,” said this year’s judges in a prepared statement.

Watch Queue Queue. All rights reserved. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize that honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.